Barratt Sherbet Fountain

This is my favourite sweet, or was. Whether you like it or not everyone remembers sherbet fountains from when they were young. However for those of you who never had the chance to try one a shebert foundtain used to be a cardboard tube filled with sherbet, with a liquorice stick in the middle to dip into the sherbet. They used to be covered in yellow paper with the name on, which you could tear away to get to the sherbet. They are a lot of fun to eat - trying to dig out the sherbet with a liqorice stick, having the sherbet fizz in your mouth and then get all over your clothes because you tried to pour it down your throat. Good memories. But now it ...  Read the complete review

It's always a shame when things from your childhood change and what seems to have been changed (in the packaging anyway) are Barratt's Sherbet Fountain. Previously they had been made of cardboard in a yellow and red iconic container, almost looking like the Hulk Hogan of the sweet shop. Now the container looks more like a little plastic bottle of industrial strength weed killer, keeping the colour scheme though almost impossible to get into (it genuinely took me 5 minutes to break into) the 25g of sherbet inside. When opened the old memories of Sherbet Fountains come back, a liquorice straw inside a tube of white sherbet. The problem of white sherbet is it has ...  Read the complete review

It is indeed a sorry day. If you're looking for a pick me up then please just mark this review as fantastic and navigate away. This review contains weeping. You have been warned. If you're still here then I shall put you out of your misery as far as the curiosity goes: The sherbet fountain we know and love from our childhood is no more. It has been re-branded and re-packaged and just...... well...... is no more! Read on only if you are of strong disposition: **What was it?** The Sherbet Fountain used to be a yellow and red cardboard tube out of the top of which poked a tube of liquorice. The whole thing looked like a stick ...  Read the complete review

Sherbet fountains are a traditional confectionery product, made by Barratt. They consist of citrus flavoured sherbet and a stick of liquorice to eat the sherbet with. At less than 50p each, Sherbet Fountains aren't too expensive. The packaging is attractive, but has recently changed from cardboard/paper to plastic, which in this environmentally friendly time is strange, as it is now worse for the environment, as it can't be recycled! It still has the same kind of design, yellow black and red, and looking like a firework, but changing the material has made it lose a lot of the character and unique, traditional feel it had when it was cardboard and paper. ...  Read the complete review

One of my favourite childhood pleasures involved a stick of liquorice and a tube of sherbet. As they were known then, Bassett's Sherbet Fountains, were the thing of dreams. There was a deep satisfaction in managing to get ANY sherbet sucked up the liquorice tube (it always seemed to get too wet and congealed halfway up) and the pleasure one could have trying to get every last bit of sherbet from the paper tube without choking was immense. Alas those days are over in more than one respect. Now rebranded (slightly) as Barrett's Liquorice Fountains all of the pleasure has gone. Rather than the sherbet being housed in a paper tube it's now in a hard ...  Read the complete review